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REVISION HISTORY IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
Version 2.0a Released 12/7/95
- Fixed three bugs in file management features:
1. deleting a file closed windows not containing a view of the file
2. browsing an archive when an archive was currently open would not
close all the appropriate windows, leaving garbage characters
in view in some windows
3. moving a file only copied it
- Updated the documentation
- Updated the business phone number to:
(215) 322-8205 (FAX / Voice)
- added a requested refinement:
a new shortcut key, F3, to trigger the Find dialog
Version 2.0 Released 11/20/95
**** Feature added after documentation went to press ****
create a workspace consisting of commonly browsed or
searched files by adding up to 20 file names on the
command line. These files will be auto-loaded on
startup.
- added context menu triggered by right mouse click
- added Edit menu item, Deselect Marked, to replace old use of
right click
- added File menu items offering basic file management functions:
copy
move
delete
rename
- added Window menu items
maximize all windows
restore all windows
- added Search menu items
beginning of Document
end of document
- implemented checking of the date / time stamp of the file on
reactivating a file window: if out of date, the file is reloaded
after a prompt
- added View menu with options to:
word wrap to fit current window
format text without word wrap
format for hex display of non-text files
toggle 7-8 bit ASCII (to ease viewing some old word processor formats)
execute the associated program, e.g., the one which created the file
or a compatible viewer
- raised the maximum number of bookmarks per window to 100
- bookmarks are maintained for each view separately
(bookmarks are cleared whenever word wrap is chosen from the View menu
and marked lines are unmarked on switching views)
- reformatted menus and reworded menu items for clarity
- added menu tips on the status line for additional description
- added buttons in the "Find Next / Cancel" search dialog to allow:
restarting search from top of current file
switching to next file and start searching it
- added settings and a dialog for changing them:
maximize window if only one:
open first document maximized (cascade subsequent windows)
maximize/restore windows in unison:
maximize one, maximize all -- restore one, restore all
auto-detect archive extension (ZIP, ARJ, LZH) on opening a single
file, via drag'n'drop or the file open dialog, and extract contents
initial format on opening a file (word wrapped, unformatted, hex view)
substitute character for filtering out control / graphic characters
- added Options menu, replacing the Fonts menu, providing for:
setting current window's screen font / color
setting current window's printer font / color
changing default settings:
apply changes to current session only or future session also
reloading default settings from .ini file
- added utility called MVLAUNCH.EXE which, if associated with file
extensions in File Manager or equivalent shell (FM), enables
multiple files to be loaded into MultiVu by double-clicking them
(one at a time) in FM -- this works around a problem some Windows
programs have because Windows intercepts attempts to invoke them
once they're already loaded in memory
- fixed bug which caused the program to fail when selecting
multiple files from the root directory of a drive in the File
Open dialog
- added test for presence of MULTIVU.INI file in the WINDOWS
directory -- if not found, read default settings from the
one in the directory from which MultiVu is executed and create
one in the WINDOWS directory for subsequent maintenance there.
- fixed bug which caused the program to fail when the enter key was
pressed in the scan dialog and a file name (with no wild cards)
was present in the file name edit window
- rewrote function which compacts path/file name for display
when too large to fit .. bug caused lockup opening file in
rare instances
Version 1.1 Released 3/17/95
- ability to set foreground text color in the Fonts menu.
- save / restore of Font information:
Typeface, eg., Arial, etc. ..... initial default: Courier
Style, e.g., Bold, Italic, etc.. initial default: Regular
Point Size ..................... initial default: 10
Foreground Text Color .......... initial default: black.
- multi-select capability added to File Open dialog and Scan
List Box. Works just like File Manager. In List Box, after
marking selected files, press Enter key to initiate opening
files.
- ability to browse the contents of ZIP, ARJ, or LZH archives.
The decompression program, e.g., PKUNZIP.EXE, must be in user's
DOS path.
On opening an archive file, its contents are displayed in an
Archive Contents List Box. You can then select any file name(s)
shown in the list box and browse the corresponding files.
- /Q "Quiet" command line switch to suppress opening message box in
registered version.
- "How to Register" Help Menu item in trial version.
- refined scrolling behavior in response to pressing the Home key.
If the document is scrolled horizontally, it will scroll back to
the left margin on pressing the Home key. Pressing it again
will scroll it back to the top of the document. Version 1.0
scrolled immediately to the top of the document.
- proper initialization of the file type list box in the "Save As"
dialog presented when exporting selected text to a file, i.e.,
Copy to File.
- retention of the file location and name used for exporting
selected text (Copy to File) as the default for the next export
request.
- retention of a non-default printer selection as the default
for the next print request.
- proper display in the presence of a non-white window background
color, as set in Control Panel.
- disabling of Edit Menu items when no document windows are open.
- no longer searching System and Hidden files in scanning a disk
for text or files of a specified pattern.
- correction of bug which caused the system to become ill-behaved
when the "Run Minimized" property is set for the MultiVu program
item in Program Manager.
- correction of bug which occasionally caused the first character
on a line to be dropped. This occurred when a new-line
character occurred without a carriage return.
- correction of bug which caused lines separated by a page break
to be displayed on adjacent lines, with no space between them.
- correction of bug which caused the system to become ill-behaved
on closing MultiVu while opening a file from a list box
resulting from scanning for text.
- correction of bug which caused the system to become ill-behaved
when scanning a deep directory structure for files or text.
- an insufficiently sized buffer used in the Scan dialog for the
file name pattern to search, so as to accommodate a search on a
long list of file types, e.g. "*.c;*.h;*.cpp;*.hpp," resulting
in memory corruption and strange behavior.
- failure to detect inability to open a file during scan for text,
in case of files opened with DENY_READ by another application,
causing MultiVu to hang.
Version 1.0 Released 8/24/94